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The First In-Depth, Real-World, Insider’s Guide to Powerful Windows Debugging For Windows developers, few tasks are more challenging than debugging–-or more crucial. Reliable and realistic information about Windows debugging has always been scarce. Now, with over 15 years of experience two of Microsoft’s system-level developers present a thorough and practical guide to Windows debugging ever written. Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat cover debugging throughout the entire application lifecycle and show how to make the most of the tools currently available–-including Microsoft’s powerful native debuggers and third-party solutions. To help you find real solutions fast, this book is organized around real-world debugging scenarios. Hewardt and Pravat use detailed code examples to illuminate the complex debugging challenges professional developers actually face. From core Windows operating system concepts to security, Windows® Vista™ and 64-bit debugging, they address emerging topics head-on–and nothing is ever oversimplified or glossed over!

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"No matter what your background, the pages that follow will provide you with some excellent knowledge, insight, and even a little bit of wisdom in the realm of Flash and ActionScript. Happy learning!"-- Branden Hall, from the Foreword Written by Flash insiders with extensive knowledge of the technology, this guide is designed specifically to help Flash designers and developers make the leap from ActionScript 2.0 to the new object-oriented ActionScript 3.0 quickly and painlessly. Formatted so you can find any topic easily, ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide explains: Object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts, such as packages and classes ActionScript 3.0 features and player enhancements that improve performance Workflow differences between ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 including tools, code editing, component sets, and image and font rendering Where did it go? A guide to help you find familiar features in ActionScript 3.0, such as global functions, operators, properties, and statements How do I? Step-by-step solutions for performing tasks with ActionScript 3.0, including input, sound, video, display, events, text, and more Also included are overviews of Flash and ActionScript features and workflows. ActionScript 3.0 is a huge upgrade to Flash's programming language -- and this guide helps you upgrade your skills to match it.

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Design and develop great solutions using SharePoint 2013 Develop your business collaboration solutions quickly and effectively with the rich set of tools, classes, libraries, and controls available in Microsoft SharePoint 2013. With this practical reference, enterprise-development expert Paolo Pialorsi shows you how to extend and customize the SharePoint environment—and helps you sharpen your development skills. Ideal for ASP.NET developers with Microsoft .NET and C# knowledge. Discover how to: Create custom SharePoint apps and publish them in the Office Store Orchestrate your workflows with the new Workflow Manager 1.0 Access and manage your SharePoint data with the REST APIs Federate SharePoint with Windows Azure Access Control Services Customize your SharePoint 2013 UI for a better user experience Gain a thorough understanding of authentication and authorization

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See how the core components of the Windows operating system work behind the scenes—guided by a team of internationally renowned internals experts. Fully updated for Windows Server(R) 2008 and Windows Vista(R), this classic guide delivers key architectural insights on system design, debugging, performance, and support—along with hands-on experiments to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand. Delve inside Windows architecture and internals: Understand how the core system and management mechanisms work—from the object manager to services to the registry Explore internal system data structures using tools like the kernel debugger Grasp the scheduler's priority and CPU placement algorithms Go inside the Windows security model to see how it authorizes access to data Understand how Windows manages physical and virtual memory Tour the Windows networking stack from top to bottom—including APIs, protocol drivers, and network adapter drivers Troubleshoot file-system access problems and system boot problems Learn how to analyze crashes

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Written in full partnership with the Microsoft Windows 2000 product development team, this updated official guide to the system's core architecture and internals provides the information users need to maximize performance. Included are hands-on experiments with utilities to demonstrate Windows 2000's internal behavior. (Operating Systems)

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Inside Windows NT Server 4 is a comprehensive reference that introduces you to the new features of Windows NT Server 4 and enables you to master its vast array of functions. Whether you are responsible for a single departmental server or a large corporate network, this book ensures you will have the skills you need to be a success. With Inside Windows NT Server 4, you'll find out how to plan tape backup and file archiving so that your LAN can quickly become operational after minor glitches or catastrophes. Plus, you'll learn how to share files and printers on the network, and give your users access to the resources they need without compromising network security. The companion CD-ROM includes Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Assistant, Socket Spy/32, Scan NT, three bonus chapters from New Riders' Windows NT Server Professional Reference, three bonus chapters from New Riders' Intranet Working, Microsoft Internet Information Server, and much more!

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A wide-ranging discussion of the next generation of the Microsoft Windows Operating system. Not only does the book provide an exclusive, inside look at the architectural and programming underpinnings of Windows, but it also gives a detailed vision of the next important evolution of the Windows-centric office. (Operating Systems)

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"John Robbins has done for Windows debugging what Charles Petzold did for Windows programming." -Jeffrey Richter, author, Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows How can you prevent bugs from creeping into your programs-even before you begin writing code? What practices separate the debugging gods from the mere mortals? DEBUGGING APPLICATIONS describes a powerful, Windows-focused methodology for debugging on the offensive-starting at the requirements phase-so you catch and fix bugs at the source, before customers ever see your software. Expert bugslayer John Robbins reveals lethally effective real-world techniques for resolving just a bout any debugging problem-from memory bugs and disappearing threads to the hairiest multithreaded deadlock. * Learn the coding techniques that help you introduce fewer errors into your program and spend less time debugging * Use version control systems, bug tracking software, and other infrastructure tools to maximize product quality * Exploit the advanced debugging capabilities in the Microsoft Visual C++ and Visual Basic development systems so you debug faster and more effectively * Cushion crashes with structured exception handling and C++ exception handling * Decipher the x86 assembly language you see in the Disassembly window * Master the tools and tactics for debugging multithreaded deadlocks, cross-machine processes, multilanguage problems, Windows 2000 services and dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that load into services, and other challenging situations Along with John's expert guidance, you also get eight of his battle-tested, professional-level utilities for solving many of the nastiest bugs you'll encounter. In all, the CD-ROM packs over 2.5 megabytes of source code to study and reuse. With DEBUGGING APPLICATIONS, you'll learn the proven practices the industry's best developers use to eradicate bugs at the source-and deliver better software faster!

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No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you don’t fully understand the language. As part of the "You Don’t Know JS" series, this compact guide explores JavaScript types in greater depth than previous treatments by looking at type coercion problems, demonstrating why types work, and showing you how to take advantage of these features. Like other books in this series, You Don’t Know JS: Types & Grammar dives into trickier parts of the language that many JavaScript programmers simply avoid or assume don’t exist (like types). Armed with this knowledge, you can achieve true JavaScript mastery. With this book you will: Get acquainted with JavaScript’s seven types: null, undefined, boolean, number, string, object, and symbol Understand why JavaSript’s unique array, string, and number characteristics may delight or confound you Learn how natives provide object wrappers around primitive values Dive into the coercion controversy—and learn why this feature is useful in many cases Explore various nuances in JavaScript syntax, involving statements, expressions, and other features

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A reference guide to the Java language, migrations and integration, the Java compiler, Java application development, the Java interpreter and applet viewer, HTML, browsers and the Java debugger. Descriptions and examples of every type of Java package, class and interface are included.